DEFRA Landscape Recovery Scheme
Lincoln and Witham HIOSA
Project Summary The Lincoln & Witham Landscape Recovery project is a large-scale environmental initiative uniting around 30 landowners across 7,000 hectares between Lincoln and Newark to restore wildlife habitats, improve water management, and support sustainable farming.
Fearn Heritage Role Fearn Heritage worked closely with the Landscape Recovery Scheme project team to provide a Heritage Impact and Opportunities Assessment. This involved a detailed heritage baseline study, the creation of a series of land use opportunity maps, condition assessment and a detailed impact assessment for the nature restoration proposals that are central to the project. We also developed a series of Historic Environment Principles for the project team to use throughout the project to guide their work. Community engagement is an important part of the project and we created a series of recommendations for future community engagement with the heritage on the site, based on the results of the baseline survey working particularly closely with the Wilder Doddington Team.